Which romantic songs do you like?

This doesn't fit with what the topic is meant to be, guilty pleasure romance songs... but I find it amazingly Romantic.. that infinite longing... Wichita Lineman. I was only introduced to it by Johnny Cash's cover in the year 2003:
though I listen to Glenn Campbell's version more often these days:

Come to My Garden by Minnie Riperton.. a bit more on the Cosmic side...
"I'll take your breath, and give you mine.. I'll take your hand and lead you where the truth lies..."

No Love Is Sorrow by Pentangle
"And now you must know, my soul is for thee, that's why this life is my soaring bird"
 
Ruby Tuesday


She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter if it's gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows, she comes and goes

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still, I'm gonna miss you

Don't question why she needs to be so free
She'll tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained
To a life where nothing's gained
And nothing's lost, at such a cost

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still, I'm gonna miss you

"There's no time to lose, " I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the time
Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind
Ain't life unkind?
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still, I'm gonna miss you
 
I have a special weakness for lyrics that sound as if the love story takes place, at least in part, in something like another dimension, apart from time. Here's one, the magical place is called the Rainbounds, by Swinging Popsicle.

I can see you in the rainbounds
'Coz that's where we can be in comfort
I'll see you in the rainbounds
'Coz that's where we can be all day

I'm gonna take you there, how romantic
I'm gonna save your kiss, my darling
I'm gonna save your kiss, my darling
Hey, do you know, I love the way you do

https://soundcloud.com/flavour_of_sound%2Frainbounds-swinging-popsicle
 
I can try for a top ten... make it of each gender:

These Dreams by Heart, I Love How You Love Me by Paris Sisters, The Look of Love by Dusty Springfield, Dreams by Cranberries, Only You by Yaz, Sway by Julie London, Brass in Pocket by The Pretenders, Sixteen Reasons by Connie Stevens, Do That to Me One More Time by Captain & Tenille, White Flag by Dido

Kind Woman by Buffalo Springfield, This Guy's in Love with You by Herb Alpert, Moonlight Mile by Rolling Stones, Me and Magdalena by Monkees, Hey Pretty Girl by Kip Moore, Northern Sky by Nick Drake, Can't Take my Eyes Off You by Frankie Vallie, It's Only Time by Magnetic Fields, Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye by Eddie Arnold, Mary in the Morning by Al Martino

It makes a pretty world, but I think this genre can lose its magic more easily than others.
 

Lyrics

I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite a while
And all of the dreams that come true
So surprising how it catches you
I wanna learn more about me
I've been sinking like a setting stone
And now the dreams are realising it's true
That's why I wanna learn about you
I wanna know more about life
And things that can fly in between my mind
I wanna change all the I dream about
My waking and my so many lives, oh my
I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite a while
Just let me, let me come through
I'll give you my heart, my life for life
She gives me love
When love had gone away
When the pressure came so fast
She give me love
Long distance runaround
And in between the pressure
I was summoned
How did we dance on the south side of the sky
We saw the flags flying on the moon
And thru the gates of delirium so fast
Believing in the light was a beginning
Only to believe in you
Only to believe in you
She give me love
When I was losing fast
I was awakened by the dream
She was the love for me
The first and last
And all that I remembered
Was the roundabout only to believe in you
Only to believe in you
Who was the first to show
The moon at night
Is never so far away
We are the first to define the
Languages of love
Who was the first to learn
The universal consciousness divine
We are the first to discover
This day in our time
And when the history of science
Re-writes itself each day
We are living in days of wonder Simon says
So wonderful true believer
So wonderful I'm alive
Just take this world of life
Each day at a time
So up this universal
Combinations of the word
I'll try so hard to fulfill my belief
Take me I'm a love you
I'm a love you
No change in my mind
I'll walk with you to the end of the earth
So up this universal
Combinations of the word
So up this universal
Word of love
Take me I'm a love you
I'm a want you
No need to change my mind
I'll walk with you to the end of the earth
Only when you looked
Did I realise
Someone broke into your life
How we hurt and never show it
Come into my world hold me
In your arms
There's a mystery to the touch
How it heals so
When we're broken
I believe that all the fear you've had
Can gently fly away
We experience we hold together
Lost in one embrace
We will love forever this eternity
For in this love, I'm alive, I'm alive
Only when you spoke
Did I realise
How you understand this life
How you help me
With your eyesight
Only when we touched
Did it all come true
How you understand my life
How you helped me with your light

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford
 
I've really liked this one for a long while, it's a very simple song yet its meaning goes a long way.


I want you to know that my heart
Will love you in every situation
That when I look at you
I feel the largest love
that can be in my being
I want you to know that loving you
comes to me very naturally
that your existence is the best thing that
could ever happen in this life to me

and even if I were to go deaf
and even if I were to go blind
and even if I were to go mute
I will let you know that I love you

And even if I were getting old
Even if I'm sad or happy
I'll let you know either way.
that you will be inside me

When it dawns and I can see you
my life is filled with total light
I feel that I love children
and so on I measure my great capacity to love

When I kiss you the emotion is such
That the heart beats more and more
I enter a state of relaxation
I feel like I can die in peace now

and even if I were to go deaf
and even if I were to go blind
and even if I were to go mute
I will let you know that I love you

And even if I were getting old
Even if I'm sad or happy
I'll let you know either way.
that you will be inside me

I'll be crazy about you my whole life
I'll love you in every which way
And like me there will be no one who loves you
I'll love you in every which way
I wlllove you in heaven or earth
I'll love you in every which way
and I will live my days at your side
I'll love you in every which way


I want to take care for you and protect you love
I'll love you in every which way
And you will know that you, you are my spoiled little girl
I'll love you in every which way
Eve if I were crazy, blind I will make you understand and know what I feel... with my whole body.
I'll love you in every which way
I'll love you in every which way
I'll love you in every which way
 
Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” is heart stirring. This concert version from his Secret World Tour 1993-1994 includes an incredible group of vocalists and musicians:
According to Gabriel himself, the lyrics of In Your Eyes, which are inspired by the African tradition, can either refer to a romantic relationship between a man and a woman or a divine relationship between someone and his God.
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The Dandys
Like an elf

Meditating I
I realized that
Even though I'm without you
At your side I go
Like an elf I follow in your footsteps
With my mind I go always with you
Chasing away sin and failures
Avoiding that the black destiny
To get close to you and trap you in his arms
Because I want your saintly soul
Not to infect the evil of the world
Because now that I feel you mine
Each time my love is deeper and deeper
Like an elf I follow your footsteps
To see if you are only mine
Or do you share your love in pieces
Because I want your saintly soul
The wickedness of the world does not infect it
Because now that I feel you are mine
Each time my love is deeper and deeper
Like an elf I follow your steps
To see if you are only mine
Or do you share your love in pieces
To see if you're just mine
Or do you share your love
In pieces
 
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